India, Jan. 27 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump on Monday spoke about working together for global peace and security and measures to advance cooperation in key areas such as technology, trade and defence in their first conversation since the American leader's inauguration last week.

The phone call, initiated by the Indian side, followed external affairs minister S Jaishankar's participation as the Indian government's representative at Trump's inauguration on January 20 and the Quad foreign ministers' meeting in Washington, the Trump administration's first foreign policy engagement.

Modi provided details of the conversation in a post on X, in which he said he congratulated his "dear friend" on his second term...